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James M Mcpherson's Reading List

The author, most recently, of “Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief” says that coming of age in Minnesota in the ’50s, he saw the South as “a mysterious, almost foreign land.”

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By the Book: James M Mcpherson (2014)

NYT By the Book column (2014-10-02).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Washington: A Life
Ron Chernow · Buy on Amazon
"Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life, and Daniel James Brown, The Boys in the Boat. In very different ways, these books chronicle unlikely triumphs over seemingly insuperable odds."
The Boys in the Boat
Daniel James Brown · Buy on Amazon
"Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life, and Daniel James Brown, The Boys in the Boat. In very different ways, these books chronicle unlikely triumphs over seemingly insuperable odds."
Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
James Oakes · Buy on Amazon
"James Oakes, Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865. A powerful analytical narrative of the confluence of politics and war that ended America's shame and trauma."
Grant
Jean Edward Smith · Buy on Amazon
"Jean Edward Smith, Grant. A lucid and empathetic account of the victorious general and underrated president that helped usher in the current revival of Grant's reputation."
The Face of Battle
John Keegan · Buy on Amazon
"John Keegan's The Face of Battle is perhaps the most important military history ever written, establishing a new way of embedding armies and warfare in broader historical currents."
Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup · Buy on Amazon
"Two constant favorites over the whole time of my teaching were Solomon Northup's Twelve Years a Slave (the book, not the movie), the best firsthand account of slavery."
Cover of The Killer Angels
The Killer Angels
Michael Shaara · Buy on Amazon
"Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels, a novel about the battle of Gettysburg that, to my mind, provides the most incisive insights into the various meanings of the war for the men who fought it."
Origins of the New South, 1877-1913
C. Vann Woodward · Buy on Amazon
"C. Vann Woodward, Origins of the New South, 1877-1913. Coming of age in Minnesota in the 1950s, I saw the South as a mysterious, almost foreign land. Woodward's book, and his other books and essays, helped to demystify the region."
The Bully Pulpit
Doris Kearns Goodwin · Buy on Amazon
"Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit, which shows how Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft dealt with recalcitrant Congresses — sometimes successfully, sometimes not."

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